Governor's Autism Council

Upcoming Meeting

Overview

In a February, 2005 letter to then-Department of Health and Family
Services Secretary Helene Nelson, Governor Jim Doyle announced that he would
appoint a Council on Autism to advise the Department on strategies for implementing
statewide supports and services for children with autism and directing the
Department to assist the Council with administrative and support services.

Governor Doyle specified that he wanted the Council to address some of the important
issues identified by his earlier Task Force on
Autism:

Provider staff training issues.

Provider and parent strategies to recruit and retain line staff.

Provider outreach efforts to recruit parents to work as line staff.

Alternative approaches to the current age restriction policy in the intensive phase.